Watch AAS's touching, funny, fearless
RESCUE VIDEOS. At
"UNCHAIN OUR
FRIENDS" see the AAS campaign and video that forced the BC SPCA
to issue a press release announcement that it is going to finally use
the law it's had for twenty years to take action for yard dogs - those
poor dogs who live helpless lives of miserable neglect, brutal cruelty,
and illegal distress, all over BC. The SPCA made that announcement in
September 2009 in Prince George BC within weeks of the release of AAS's
campaign and
video. Yet to this date, September 2010, AAS continues to get
reports of sick, cold, lonely chained dogs from all over BC and
even from Prince George.

Like
Hap who endured the misery of isolation, heat, cold, flies, and
sores as so many dogs in Prince George do, until he was finally rescued
because the BC SPCA would do nothing for him.

It called this campaign "Break the Chains of
Suffering" and a lot of dog-lover and rescuers thought that meant
that the SPCA was not going to let dogs like Cherry suffer any longer.

But it didn't. Cherry was reported to the SPCA
and nothing at all changed.

Nothing at all, even though Cherry's owner was in
contravention of the PCA Act in at least two ways.

A moment before this photo was
taken, Cherry was grinning from ear to ear and galloping up to the
kind
person who had come to touch her and tell her what a dear girl she
is. She was suddenly jerked onto her back when her tether ran out.
Cherry was rescued and is now a part of a loving family.

It's clear why this
condition is called "cherry eye".

In the BC Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals Act, causing or permitting "distress" is an offence
and an animal is in distress if it is:

(a) deprived of adequate food, water, shelter,
ventilation, space, care or veterinary treatment,
(b) injured, sick, in pain or suffering, or
(c) abused or neglected. We count eight causes of distress that Cherry could
have been seized for and her owner made an example of by being
charged: space, care, veterinary treatment, pain, suffering, abuse,
neglect. Some rescuers would say that Cherry was lucky not to
end up in the charge of the SPCA in case she had been killed as so
many dogs are killed if they are going to take money and committment.
See Puppy Bear Rescued From the SPCA.
See also Rocko, the dog who was used to raise $12,000 and then was
killed.

One of the most powerful things you can do
is to spread our web of compassion for animals. Send the AAS Website to everyone you know who hates cruelty to animals. The power of
animal-lovers joined together by the internet is changing animal protection and welfare in this province.Use your power for the animals!